{"id":172159,"date":"2022-03-04T19:04:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T13:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=172159"},"modified":"2022-03-04T19:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T13:34:40","slug":"gujarat-simba-to-give-distinct-identity-to-each-asiatic-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gujarat-simba-to-give-distinct-identity-to-each-asiatic-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat: SIMBA to give distinct identity to each Asiatic lion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the news?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gujarat<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> forest department has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based software named <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SIMBA<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is SIMBA?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-172160 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/89789078.jpg.jpg?resize=300%2C158&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/89789078.jpg.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/89789078.jpg.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SIMBA or Software with Intelligent Marking Based Identification of Asiatic lions is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based software developed to identify <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/29-rise-in-asiatic-lion-numbers-says-gujarat\/\">Asiatic lions<\/a><\/strong><\/span> individually.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The software has been developed by Hyderabad-based \u201cteliolabs\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><b>How does SIMBA work?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asiatic lions have unique whisker spots on either side of their muzzle. According to scientific studies, these precise patterns are highly variable and do not change over time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SIMBA works with a deep machine learning technique to distinguish these precise patterns\/marks to identify Asiatic lions individually.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The software can also give additional information like gender (male\/female), name, microchip number, life-status (dead\/alive), lactating (in case of female) among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of SIMBA?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Firstly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it will be used for understanding population demographics and expanding conservation and management efforts towards Asiatic Lions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Secondly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it can be used to create a library of data on the Asiatic lions with a unique identification number\/ name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<b> \u201c<\/b><b>Gujarat: SIMBA to give distinct identity to each Asiatic lion<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b>published in <b>TOI <\/b>on<b> 4th Mar 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? The Gujarat forest department has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based software named SIMBA. What is SIMBA? SIMBA or Software with Intelligent Marking Based Identification of Asiatic lions is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based software developed to identify Asiatic lions individually.\u00a0 The software has been developed by Hyderabad-based \u201cteliolabs\u201d.\u00a0 &nbsp; How does SIMBA&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gujarat-simba-to-give-distinct-identity-to-each-asiatic-lion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gujarat: SIMBA to give distinct identity to each Asiatic lion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-172159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704915936},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}